Biotechnology Bulletin ›› 2024, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (11): 125-141.doi: 10.13560/j.cnki.biotech.bull.1985.2024-0360

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Development and Application of Mass Spectrometry-based Single-cell Proteomics Technologies

GU Lei(), ZHANG Yu-lu, TANG Shang-rui, YU Hao-yue, LI Chen()   

  1. School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200025
  • Received:2024-04-15 Online:2024-11-26 Published:2024-12-19
  • Contact: LI Chen E-mail:leigu@shsmu.edu.cn;cli@shsmu.edu.cn

Abstract:

Single-cell multi-omics technologies have brought new vitality into life sciences and medicine and enable us to explore the unknowns of life and expand the boundaries of medicine from a more microscopic cellular scale, a higher-dimensional spatial-temporal perspective, and a more intersectional vision of genomics. Single-cell proteomics(SCP)is the study of the temporal and spatial heterogeneity of protein expression in a single or a single type of cell. Despite technical difficulties such as throughput, sensitivity, and resolution, mass spectrometry-based cell-scale spatiotemporal proteomics technologies have attracted much attention due to its characteristics of unbiased detection, multiple identification types and accurate quantification. This paper reviews the development of single-cell proteomics in recent years, introduces the related technological advances in four aspects, namely, single-cell sorting, sample pre-treatment, mass spectrometry detection, and data analysis, and discusses its applications and prospects for development in life science and medical research. Spatiotemporal proteomics research at the single-cell level presents both challenges and opportunities, and the emerging single-cell proteomics technologies will undoubtedly provide new ideas and methods, cognitive clues, and multimodal data, and other valuable resources for related research fields.

Key words: single-cell proteomics(SCP), mass spectrometry(MS), cell-scale spatiotemporal proteomics technology